signum – Latin noun declension

Noun: signum
Hyphenation:

Gender: Neuter Declension: Second

Nominative

Singular	signum
Plural	signa

Genitive

Singular	signī
Plural	signōrum

Dative

Singular	signō
Plural	signīs

Accusative

Singular	signum
Plural	signa

Ablative

Singular	signō
Plural	signīs

Vocative

Singular	signum
Plural	signa

Sample Sentences

signa cōnferre cum aliquō (to go fight with someone)
Delum venit. Ibi ex fano Apollinis religiosissimo noctu clam sustulit signa pulcherrima atque antiquissima, eaque in onerariam navem suam conicienda curavit. (He went to Delos. There, from that holiest temple of Apollo, at night, he secretly took away the most beautiful and ancient statues, and made sure to have them loaded on board his own ship.) [70 BCE, Cicero, In Verrem 2.1.46]
ōrdō signōrum (the Zodiac signs) [29 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 1.239]
lāpsaque sub terrās ortaque signa canō (… and the constellations having sunk beneath the earth and arisen, I sing.) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 4.12]
Tribus autem digitis signa facimus, quia Trinitatem exprimimus. (We perform these signings of the cross with three fingers, because we represent the Trinity with it.) [12th c., Honorius Augustodunensis, Gemma animae 1.57 (from du Cange, Glossarium mediæ et infimæ latinitatis, page 482a)]

Nouns inflected like signum

palmētum, miliardum, rēctangulum, bactērium, frūctum, melimēlum, scītum, scūtum, lanthanum, sertum, sacrum, pentaptōtum, dēcrēmentum, sorbum, fundibulum, alphabētum, siglum, signum, flābrum, nūtrīmentum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *segnom, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”) or *sekʷ- (“to follow”).

Verbs referencing "signum"

English Nouns signal, French Nouns signal, Dutch Nouns sein, English Nouns sign, Galician Nouns sino, Old Portuguese Nouns sino, Portuguese Nouns sino, Spanish Nouns sino, Galician Nouns sina, Spanish Nouns señal, English Nouns signet, German Nouns Segen, Catalan Nouns signe, French Nouns signe, Italian Nouns segno, Old English Nouns segn, Ukrainian Nouns сигнал, Galician Nouns sinal, Portuguese Nouns sinal, Irish Nouns sín, Dutch Nouns zegen, Portuguese Nouns ensino, Romanian Nouns semn, Catalan Nouns senyal, French Nouns seing, Irish Nouns séan, Portuguese Nouns sinete, Old Spanish Nouns sennal, Finnish Nouns signumi, Middle English Nouns sygne.